- From: Stanley Guan <stanley.guan@oracle.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 14:19:43 -0700
- To: "Lisa Dusseault" <lisa@osafoundation.org>
- Cc: <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Lisa, I am looking at RFC2518 bis-05! My question is why list item separator (",") was not explicitly shown in the derivation rules. Is it because it is implicitly implied? BTW, what's the current status RFC2518 bis? Thx, -Stanley ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisa Dusseault" <lisa@osafoundation.org> To: "Stanley Guan" <stanley.guan@oracle.com> Cc: <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 10:04 AM Subject: Re: list item separator > > I'm a little confused. Which document are you looking at, RFC2518 or > RFC2518 bis (and if so, which draft?) > > RFC2518 doesn't support commas in the If header, which is unfortunate > because it doesn't allow the sender to split the header up into several > headers. Normal HTTP composition rules allow the sender to do that, and > the entire header is reconstructed by adding in commas. > > Lisa > > On May 4, 2004, at 10:30 AM, Stanley Guan wrote: > > > As shown in the Example, list items are separated by ",". > > Is this implied by the notation "1*"? Why "," is not > > explicitly specified in the derivation rules? Can we use > > space character instead of "," as separator? > > > > Thx, > > > > -Stanley > > > > > > 9.5 If Header > > > > If = "If" ":" ( 1*No-tag-list | 1*Tagged-list) > > No-tag-list = List > > Tagged-list = Resource 1*List > > Resource = Coded-URL > > List = "(" 1*(["Not"](State-token | "[" entity-tag "]")) ")" > > State-token = Coded-URL > > Coded-URL = "<" absoluteURI ">" > > > > 9.5.4 Example - Tagged List If header > > > > COPY /resource1 HTTP/1.1 > > Host: www.example.com > > Destination: http://www.example.com/resource2 > > If: <http://www.example.com/resource1> (<locktoken:a-write-lock- > > token> [W/"A weak ETag"]), (["strong ETag"]), > > <http://www.bar.bar/random>(["another strong ETag"]) > > > >
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